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Updated Nov. 23, 2023 6:04 am ET
Will Greenwich, Conn., home to some of America’s most perfect lawns, finally blow off noisy leaf blowers?
Some who live there are pleading for peace.
“The roar, roar, roar is inescapable!” longtime resident Monica Prihoda said at a recent town meeting, imitating a motor with her voice. “Even the storm windows do not protect me.”
“Please,” she implored local officials. “I beg you.”
More than 100 cities nationwide, including some near Greenwich, restrict loud leaf blowers. But the tony New York City suburb that is home to billionaires and hedge funds, has long refused to turn over a new leaf. Town leaders decades ago exempted gas-powered blowers from Greenwich’s noise ordinance.
Now, a coalition of residents called “Quiet Yards Greenwich” is being anything but quiet. Raking through reams of documents and citing a case from the 17th century (about a neighbor’s pig sty), they are pushing for a seasonal limit on gas-powered leaf blowers—and urging the use of electric ones instead.
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